24th April 2013
For fast-acting relief – try slowing down! Lily Tomlin
You really just don’t know where you day can take you do
you, yesterday morning I’m in my meeting
with my mom and my members having a laugh, buy 2 I’m at the doctors, then
A&E because my moms had some kind of stroke! The most horrible feeling in the world was
having to leave my mom in that ward last night and come home not knowing much
at all. Hopefully they’ll do tests today
and I’ll have her back as soon as.
Funnily enough I’ve been very aware of everyone rushing just
lately and how busy we all seem to be, never slowing down to actually experience
the normalness of life. It’s all just
busy, busy, busy, yet we’re only here once 80 or so years if you’re lucky, I’m
slowing down, I want to enjoy the really important things in my life like my
mom, my family and my friends and loved ones.
Yes it means I have less money but we don’t have to pay for giggles and
love and as long as I can pay my bills we’ll be ok.
There are so many things round my house need repairing or
replacing, my dvd player/recorder has broke, both my front door and porch door
needs replacing, the fence at the front has blown down and the gates hanging
off, the fence panels at the back are saying they’ll be on their way soon too,
oh yes it really is like the house that Jack built at the moment, but honestly
these things are all things that aren’t at all important in the grand
scheme. I’d rather take my mom to
Ironbridge and spend my spare cash on making her smile whilst she eats cake, or
the holiday we have booked, yep the falling off door will still be there even
when we’re not.
I weighed almost 40 people before 9.30am yesterday morning
because they’re so busy, they have to be at work, or look after their
childrens, children so they can go to work, or other reasons all of which are
valid. It’s such a shame that everything
is so damn expensive that we all have to work so very, very hard and that so
many don’t have the time in their 168 hours week to find themselves an 30
minutes to sit and enjoy their meeting.
We rush our food too, what do all these things have in
common;
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Grab a sandwich whilst filling up with petrol.
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Have a steak bake from Greggs.
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Drive through Mac D’s.
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Sneak bits of food from someone's plate as you
clear the table.
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Taste food as you prepare meals.
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Eat a free sample of food at the grocery store.
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Spoon ice cream out of the tub or reach into a
bag of crisps while you're walking around talking on the phone.
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Take a piece of chocolate or a sweet as you walk
past a colleagues desk.
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Nibble on something you see when you open the
fridge door to get something else out.
These are all things we do when we’re rushing, distracted
and usually standing up! When we eat in
these situations, you tend not to notice how much you’ve eaten, and the
calories will soon mount up and so will the weight problem.
Not only is it important to slow down a little in for your
sheer enjoyment of your time here, it’s also important to slow down and sit
down when you eat too, because you become more conscious of everything you put
in your mouth. You need to pay complete attention
to what you are eating so you don’t end up thinking, “I’m still hungry….I want more”.
If you think about it, most of the eating you do when you’re
standing up is impulse eating, not food that has been planned, whereas when you
sit down to eat, if possible at a table, you’ve made a conscious decision to
eat, you know that these meals count, you’ve probably worked the ProPoints out
in the too, and its easier for you to track what you’ve had, and it will help
to avoid overeating.
So just for today, even better for always, sit down whenever
you eat, it really does make a difference.
I even managed it yesterday with the awful day I had, so the least you
can do is try.
Slow down – BeYouTiful and enjoy each day you have, cos you
never know how many of them you’re going to get. xx
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